Brian Winter
reuters.com
February 5, 2014
Brazilian security forces are using undercover agents, intercepting e-mails,
and rigorously monitoring social media to try to ensure that violent
anti-government protesters do not ruin soccer’s World Cup this year, officials
told Reuters.
Demonstrations in recent months have been much smaller than those last June
when Brazil hosted a dress rehearsal tournament for the World Cup, shaking
President Dilma Rousseff’s government and contributing to an economic
slowdown.
But they have still resulted in vandalism of banks and paralyzed parts of
major cities as a hard core of perhaps a few thousand protesters nationwide,
some of whom wear masks and call themselves “Black Blocs,” clash with
police.
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014
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